Upcoming Events

The POWER project is organising an Industry Panel will be take place on the 22nd of February from 10 am to 12.30 pm (GMT time) as part of the European Industry days. It will be organised in the form of an online webinar in 530 minutes sessions discussing different issues about water. Details of the Panel: Thursday 22nd February 2018[...]

The final event of the COST Action TU1306 CyberParks is an international and interdisciplinary scientific conference that invites both scholars and practitioners to reflect on how information and communication technologies (ICT) re-configurate the production and use of public spaces. Thinking within the conceptual nexus between the notions of place, technology, and society, the CyberParks network reflects on the innovations, potentials,[...]

The Information Ethics Roundtable (held annually since 2003) is a yearly conference that brings together researchers from disciplines such as philosophy, information science, communications, public administration, anthropology, and law to discuss ethical issues such as information privacy, intellectual property, intellectual freedom, and censorship. The theme for the Information Ethics Roundtable 2018 is Surveillance, Algorithms, and Digital Culture and the roundtable[...]

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) will host the 9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference at the University of Manchester. Building on past events organised under the auspices of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN), the conference will provide an opportunity for scholars and stakeholders to exchange ideas coming from the latest research in the[...]

ISIRC is the world’s leading interdisciplinary social innovation research conference. The conference brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss social innovation in a variety of perspectives. ISIRC 2017 is hosted by the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Center for Social Investment and Innovation in cooperation with the Westphalian University Gelsenkirchen, Institute for Work and Technology. The conference will take place at[...]

The next edition of the NGI Forum will be held in 2018 on 13th September 2018 in Porto, Portugal. In line with the first edition, which was held in September 2017, the main goal for this event is to ensure the involvement of the best Internet researchers and innovators to address technological opportunities arising from cross-links and advances in various[...]

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability & Social Innovation

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPSSI) are ICT systems leveraging the emerging « network effect » by combining open online social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments (« Internet of Things ») in order to create awareness of problems and possible solutions requesting collective efforts, enabling new forms of social innovation.

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Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPSSI) is manage by the Coordination and Support Action CHiC project which is funded under Grant Agreement No. 687686 by the European Commission.